News

"Well done to all those who competed today at the Club Champs on Stanton Moor. The area, courses and weather combined to provide some challenging competition and produce worthy Club Champions. Please find the list of Club Champions below.

M10 Benjamin Squire
W10 Alice Carley
M14 James Peet
M16 Simon Warrener
M21 Andy Llewellyn
W21 Emily Powell
M35 Ant Squire
M40 Gary Peet
W45 Catherine Hughes
M50 Steve Schofield
W50 Julie Webster
M55 Mick Lucking
M60 Dave Booker
W60 Jane Booker
M65 Dave Cooke
W65 Hilary Palmer
W70 Margaret Buckland
M75 John Woodall

Note that where there weren't any NOC finishers in the appropriate age class on the required course, we've looked at performances on the other courses to assign a NOC Champion to that age class. Please let me know if you feel aggrieved or if there are any errors in the list!

Prizes will be available at the Xmas event at Walesby on Sunday the 21st December. See you there.

Thanks to DVO for putting on a great event."

Andy Llewellyn

Due to a late cancellation there is a space on a L2 course which starts on Sat 10th January at Brierley Forest Park close to M1 J28. It's a course like I have done a couple of times recently - doing all the practical elements and some time for discussions with the learners doing all the written tasks over an 8 week period and then meeting up again on Sat 21 March at the same venue to have the tasks marked and do a practical coaching session.

After that they have to do 4 other short written tasks and coach 6 sessions in a club, school or squad situation before being watched and assessed as the final assessment.

The cost is £405 (includes all resources, training and assessments). The fee would be slightly lower if 2 more people took part but the course will happen in any case as the 2 people who have enrolled have been waiting some time (Grants for this fee may be available)

If you know of anyone who is interested please pass this on so that they can contact me direct by phone or email.

Many thanks

Hilary Palmer

Entries are now open for the National Coaching Conference 2015, for further details please see attached.

At the British Schools Orienteering Championships held near Leeds on 16th November, Nottingham High School achieved 3rd place with their year 12 team. The year 13 team won their age class with Jack Smith becoming boys year 13 British schools champion.

Inaugural East Midlands Sprint Championships : Well done to Mick Lucking on picking up the Men’s Superveteran title at Saturday's event.

East Midlands Urban League : Three winners from NOC, Men’s Junior: Simon Warrener, Men’s Superveteran: Paul Morris and Women’s Ultraveteran: Hilary Palmer.

To be held on Sunday 7th December at Stanton Moor near Matlock. Full details here.

A number of club officials have visited the area. An excess of undergrowth including very significant areas of brambles would make the event unpleasant for competitors. Reluctantly the club has decided to cancel the event. We hope to add a replacement event to the calendar but this will be on a different date.

There will be no power available at the Adventure Centre where we are holding the AGM tomorrow due to an electrical problem with the solar heating/wind turbine control panel. Please ensure that you bring warm clothing and if you want one, a hot drink. Refreshments (with cold drinks) will be available.

Feeling energetic?

a)Parkrun at 9:00 a.m.
b)NOC orienteering afterwards
c)Followed by the NOC A.G.M.

If you have never done a Parkrun then you need to register beforehand and print off a bar code. See the Colwick Parkrun page for full details, they also have a Facebook page which also mentions this Saturday's orienteering (see here)

The latest bumper newsletter(31 pages) can be found here.

Short, Medium, and Long Technical courses. Short is suitable for beginners and those who haven't done a night event before. Yellow standard approx. 2k Medium is for more experienced day orienteers. Light Green standard approx.3k Long is mass start at 1900. Runners will run 300m to a 'common' control and then run 3 loops of controls before returning for a final time to the common control and the finish. All competitors will do the same legs but the loops will be run in different orders to minimise following. A bit like a 'relay' with competitors racing against each other at night. It should be fun! Approx. 5.3k).

Well done to Nick Evans on his victory in the M50 class at Longshaw yesterday.

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Bassetlaw junior orienteers had a successful time at the 2014 British Schools Score Orienteering Championships, that were held at Arrow Valley Country Park last Saturday.

In the Year 9 Boys event George Carley, from the Elizabethan Academy, improved on last years 3rd place by coming 2nd and being awarded the silver medal.

In the team event Worksop College Prep School finished 2nd in both the boys and girls events and were presented with team silvers.

A number of top 10 performances were also recorded by the Bassetlaw juniors.

Results

Year 5 Girls
18th - Megan Perkins + Lauren Copcutt (Worksop College PS)
25th - Zara Isaacs + Amelia Chrispin (Worksop College PS)

Year 5 Boys
5th - Tristan Isherwood + Edward Howards (Worksop College PS)
14th - Kishna Haldipur + Freddie Coulson (Worksop College PS)
21st - Archie Simms + Ben Drohan (Worksop College PS)

Year 6 Girls
5th - Alice Carley (St Josephs Primary)
16th - Amy Briggs + Olivia Payne (Worksop College PS)

Year 6 Boys
4th - Matthew Pavier + Mason Heslop (Worksop College PS)
6th - Angus McCallion + Tom Drohan (Worksop College PS)
12th Simon Mounde + Elliott Wilkinson (Orchard School)
18th - Seb Price (Worksop College PS)

Year 7 Boys
25th - Callum Wright + Joseph Hutson (Worksop College PS)

Year 8 Boys
38th Matthew Foster + Laura Sirett (Orchard School)

Year 9 Boys
2nd - George Carley (Elizabethan Academy)
4th - Fraser Ridgway (Tuxford Academy)

Year 10 Girls
12th Eleanor Cooley (Worksop College)

Year 12/13 Boys 13th Alexander Ridgway (Tuxford Academy)

Team Results
Worksop College Prep School - 2nd in Middle/Prep Boys School Team
Worksop College Prep School - 2nd Middle/Prep Girls School Team

NOC members are invited to attend this years' a.g.m. (food & refreshments will be provided)

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ORIENTEERING CLUB

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Saturday 8th November at Colwick Park

Starting at 12.30

AGENDA

1. Apologies for Absence

2. Minutes of the AGM 2013

3. Matters Arising

4. Chairman’s Report

5. Treasurer’s Report

6. Election of Auditor

7. Membership Fees

8. Election of Officers

9. Any Other Business

10. Prize Giving (League Events)

11. Close of Meeting

NB: There will be an opportunity to discuss any other matters pertaining to the club in a short open forum.

The latest copy of the NOC newsletter has arrived. Here it is.

EMEWS special, the latest version of the newsletter is available here

This contains details of A.G.M. (Next Monday 15th September) and the planners & controllers conference (Saturday 4th October at Rushcliffe country park)

Please contact Pauline Olivant if you are planning on attending.

I have these maps from the British Middle Champs at Brereton yesterday. I'll bring them to the Brierley Forest and Byron's Walk events or will post them if you get in touch.

Course 1 (4 maps), course 2 (1 map), course 4 (1 map), course 5 (2 maps), course 6 (1 map), course 7 (1 map), course 9 (1 map) and course 10 (1 map)

Hilary Palmer

The summer league event at Wollaton Hall has now been rescheduled and will take place on Sunday 5 October. Not all of the event volunteers are available on the new date so if you are able to help with registration and download please send an e-mail to the fixtures secretary (fixtures@noc-uk.org).

HALO will be hosting this year's event, the venue is Walesby! Please contact Mick Lord if you are interested in entering. The date is the 13th/14th September and we want to finalise team names by the end of the month. Further details can be found on the HALO website.

Thursday 14th August 11.00am Committal Service at Grantham Crematorium - all are welcome, but expected to be family and close friends. 12.15pm A service of Thanksgiving for, and a celebration of, Alan's life. Wesleyan Methodist Church, Sage Street. Melton Mowbray. 1.15pm Lunch for all at Sysonby Knoll Hotel, Asfordby Road, Melton Mowbray LE13 0HP. (maps will be available for the church and hotel shortly) To assist the family with catering numbers they have asked if the club could let them how many are likely to attend from Orienteering, so could you let Pauline Olivant know by email at emoarep@noc-uk.org

The club is extremely saddened to learn of the death of Alan Beardsley this weekend. Alan had contributed immensely to the club for many decades especially in mapping, planning and controlling.

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The latest newsletter can be found here.

Late information from Nottingham City Council about a festival(this made a large section of the park OOB) which is happening on the same day has forced us to cancel this event. A new date will be arranged.

The next Bassetlaw Orienteering Club training evening will be on Wednesday 9th July.

We will be using the grounds of Ranby House School.

(The school is next to the A620, between Worksop and Retford, to the east of the A1 and between Ranby village and HMP Ranby).

Park on the grass verge that is to your left when you drive in.

There will be 3 'sprint' courses that will go through wooded areas, between school buildings and over playing fields (straight line total of 4km).

For the more energetic, after you have done the 3 courses there will be the opportunity to combined them and make a score event.

£2 seniors, £1 juniors

6.30pm - 8.00pm

Homemade refreshments.

Over fifty competitors enjoyed the sun and terrain of Rushcliffe Country Park. Alternative attractions such as the Tour de France, Wimbledon and the British Grand Prix didn’t interfere with some great Summer orienteering.

A very competitive long technical course saw some fast times with Nigel Mockridge taking 1st place.

Michael Napier “doggedly” ran around the short technical course, whilst the Hagues had a family battle on the introductory course.

Complete newcomers to the sport saw the Jenkison family outsprint and overtake the Wastells at the finish control.

Some interesting comments received at the finish line included “The introductory course passed the playground between 1 and 2 which with young children became a distraction” Probably something for future planners and controllers to consider?

NOC’s Summer league now moves to Burntstump on the 20th July.

The NOC Bassetlaw club training session on Wednesday evening (4th June) will be taking the form of an urban score event, in East Markham.

Meet in the car park of the Queen's Hotel, in East Markham Starts 6.30pm - 7.15pm

20 control score event, when you visit local features and write down the number you find there. The map is a 1:7,500. No time limit.

Join us for a drink in the Queens afterwards.

The summer league event scheduled for Tuesday 17 June at Colwick Park has been cancelled. Whilst some members have expressed support for evening fixtures, the club could not find a member able to take on the role of planner for this event.

The team of Andy Llewellyn, Richard Robinson and Peter Hodkinson finished in 2nd place in the men's premier race, helping NOC to 3rd overall in the UK relay league. Andy lost a bit of time in the more intricate sections but Richard and Peter stormed through the field with the fastest 2nd and 3rd leg times to place NOC behind Interlopers but ahead of FVO.

That's the main relay season over now, so good luck to all over the summer orienteering months and hope you can fit it as many holiday events as possible.

Andy.

Apologies for the delay. The Route Gadget for Newark Urban is now available. There were manual changes needed to the files to deal with the road crossing and to remove the second co-ordinate system from the coursedata XML. This unfortunately took some hours. Ray.

Thanks to a solid team performance, NOC finished 2nd overall in the open category in the Harvester night relay (pictures below)

Ant Squire ran a storming first leg, sneaking away from the pack in the early tricky controls and brought NOC home with a seven minute lead. This was followed up with solid runs from Harry Nicholson, Richard Robinson who rose to the challenge of finding the numerous small depressions in the dark. By now a pattern was emerging with FVO in the lead, NOC 2nd but Bristol not too far away. NOC newcomer Joe Taunton ran a controlled 4th leg only 30 seconds down on the fastest 4th leg to set Ben Beresford out in slightly darker conditions than we'd anticipated. Coming back from injury, Ben brought NOC in just a few minutes down on one of BOK's JWOC runners. Francesco then set out the short(ish) day leg in 3rd a few minutes down on BOK. Running against people an (undisclosed) fraction of his age, Francesco brought NOC within touch of BOK. Andy Llewellyn set out on last leg and ran a solid race and unknown to him, passed the BOK runner part way round the course to bring NOC in 2nd place. Good times.

As well as second overall, NOC won the Sutton Park Trophy for not having been in the top 3 for the last 5 years. Next year, we now won't be eligible for this trophy so we'll have to step it up and go for first!"


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If there is anyone wishing to learn emergency first aid cover then NOC will provide the course free of charge. Please contact the treasurer for further details. There is an upcoming course at West Notts College on the 1st July. Click on the "Courses" tab here for further details.

Online entries for Newark close at midnight 13th May.Enter here. Entry on the day will be available subject to map availability.

Dear NOC Member,

The British Orienteering Relay championships will be held on Sunday 1st June at the Cragg Estate in the North East. Please see the below flyer which outlines the classes and payment details etc.

Please could I have your entries by Friday 16th May. This is a pretty tight deadline, as I'll need to submit the teams by Sunday 18th so your early responses will be appreciated.

Please let me know if you need any further information or help.

Kind regards
Andy

Relays flyer

Well done to all the NOC runners at the JK, here are those who managed a top three finish.

Overall Results
M10A 3rd Ben Squire
M16B 3rd Benedict Harwood
M21S 2nd Andrew Powell
M35L 3rd Anthony Squire
M55S 1st Paul Morris
M60S 1st David Booker

Relay JK Trophy
3rd Richard Robinson/Andy Llewellyn/Peter Hodkinson

The new Boughton Brake Permanent Orienteering Course was officially opened today. Shown are members of the Ollerton Town Council, Friends of Boughton Brake, Amy Chandler from the Forestry Commission, pupils from the Dukeries Academy and Andrew Ridgway NOC (third from left) who has produced the map.

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1st Peter Hodkinson M21E
2nd Anthony Squire M35
3rd Ben Squire M10

Good luck to all those NOC members running the JK. JK Website.

The latest newsletter from EMOA can be found here.

Congratulations to Richard Robinson(M21) and Mick Lucking(M55) on winning their classes at Cademan and Thringstone Woods.

Peter Hodkinson has been selected for World Cup action, well done to Peter, here are the full details.

The final tables in the NOC Winter league are now available to view. A big thanks to Paul Beresford for keeping track of the scores.

Peter Hodkinson finished a fantastic 21st at the national cross country championships held at Wollaton Hall. Here's a picture of Peter wearing the colours of Notts AC.


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Thanks to all those who came to Clumber Park.

Well done to DVO on winning the Robin Hood Trophy. NOC came second with OD third. Full results are here.

A big welcome to Joe Taunton who has recently joined the club. Joe is an orienteering stalwart having started orienteering at a very young age and he continues to compete enthusiastically to this day. Joe will no doubt be a great addition to the club and we look forward to seeing him run in the green of NOC in the upcoming season!

Final details are now published at http://www.cix.co.uk/~neper/rht2014/

Roy Mitton will be offering a free training session this Saturday at Rushcliffe Country Park. It will start at 10.30 prior to the usual score format activity at 11:30. So please come and pick up some new skills which you can use immediately afterwards!

Could anyone interested please let Roy know A.S.A.P so we have an idea of the numbers attending.

Thanks to the 43 NOC members who came and ran for the club today - an excellent turn out. Everyone i spoke to enjoyed the sunny weather and well planned courses despite the area being quite physical in places given the recent rain. Thanks also to those on the coach who showed patience in the various delays.

NOC came 4th in what was a very competitive qualifying round. Sadly this means we didn't qualify for the final, but we will back next year bigger, stronger and hopefully on time!

Next up are the JK and British relays - I will send out a request for entries shortly.

NOC Team Manager
Andy Llewellyn

With one fixture to go(Boundary and Tippings Woods) in the NOC Winter league, it is still all to play for. Latest tables/standings can be found here.

A big thank you to the twenty NOC juniors who competed in the Yvette Baker Trophy event, at Thieves Wood, on Sunday. The team finished 2nd, just behind LEI and in front of LOG and DVO.

This means that NOC have qualified for the final of the YBT.

There is a NOC night event at Thieves Wood on Saturday 1st Feb. Short, Medium and Long courses are available with the easiest course providing an ideal introduction to night orienteering. If you do not have a headtorch and want to try night orienteering, come along anyway as the organiser has a number of club headtorches for loan to novices.

We would like to invite all NOC juniors to represent the club in the regional heat of the Yvette Baker Trophy. The heat is being held as part of the NOC EM League event at Thieves Wood near Mansfield on Sunday 2 February.

All junior members are eligible to compete and we hope as many of you as possible will come along and run for the club. Yellow, Orange, Light Green and Green are the competition courses with some restrictions by age or if you are a high level orienteer. The scoring system allows up to three junior boys and three junior girls to score on each course so please try to attend. Coach Robert Parkinson and Andrew Ridgway will be on hand near registration to provide advice if needed.

Juniors (and parents) please note that the qualifying heat for the 2014 Yvette Baker Trophy is to be held at the Thieves Wood event on Sunday 2 February. NOC juniors qualified for the final in 2013 and it is hoped that the club will also qualify this year. Further details to follow.

Some fantastic training opportunities, have a read and then book yourself on a course.

NOC will be competing in the Compass Sport Cup (the UK's premier orienteering club competition) qualifying round on Sunday 16th Feb at Irwell Valley near Manchester. The attached flyer contains further details of the round including how to enter. The NOC committee have kindly agreed to provide a fully subsidised coach to the event. I need your entry details and payments by 31 January 2014 but the earlier I receive entries the better.

For those new to the club (and for those that have forgotten!), the Compass Sport cup is the one event of the year where we get to run together as a club. There are a number of courses for specific age classes and the scores from members in each course are combined to give an overall score. The key to success is getting as many people from the club along as possible.

NOC has a great track record in the compass sport cup, finishing 2nd in the Final as recently as 2007 and winning outright in 2003. Hopefully we can revisit those dizzy heights in 2014!

Please let me know if you need any further information or help.
Kind regards
Andy Llewellyn
NOC Team Manager

Today is the last chance to enter the JK at the cheapest price. This year's event is to be held in South Wales.http://www.thejk.org.uk/jk2014/

The provisional results for 2013 are now available as are the fixtures for this year. Prize Giving will take place at Thieves Wood on February 2nd 2014 at 10 am.

The latest newsletter from EMOA can be found here.

Happy new year! Have a great 2014.